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I want to get away from coutu...

I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.

Raf Simons 52 quotes

I am always attracted to the ...

I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

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We all know and we all percei...

We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

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I couldn't go now to a brand ...

I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

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Our society wants things to g...

Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

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Unlike fashion, art isn't app...

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

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In the nineties, it was commo...

In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.

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In fashion design, you can di...

In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

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My challenge is to find a bea...

My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear a beautiful outfit.

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I am somebody who focuses on ...

I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

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I was raised in a very happy ...

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

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Dress codes and gestures and ...

Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

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I was growing up in the New W...

I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

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One of the first things I pic...

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

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The fashion world doesn't kno...

The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

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I'm a designer, and for me, t...

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

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In my opinion, Christian Dior...

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

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As an industrial designer, yo...

As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

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I see there is a lot of behav...

I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

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My own brand will stand or fa...

My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.

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